re: Baton Rouge traffic losing its collective mind

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I'm asserting it's not "literally impossible" to get across town without using the interstate

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That's great but that's not what I said.

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It is literally impossible to get from one side of the city to the other in any kind of reasonable time without using the interstate.

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That's called a qualifier.

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city was poorly designed and now is poorly maintained

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Agreed.

Plus there is no creativity or long-term thinking when it comes to solving traffic problems. Are there any intersections within the city that aren't addressed by either a stop sign or traffic light?

yall still blaming Katrina?

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I go all over town on a regular basis in a reasonable amount of time. Obviously there are some roads I wouldn't use, which sucks, but I can get to where I need to 90% of the time without using the interstate in a more than reasonable amount of time.

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You cannot get from the East side of the city to the West side of the city quickly. It's less than 12 miles and it will take you at least 30 minutes regardless of the number of cars on Florida. It's the same thing for Airline Hwy - which runs from South to North.

Yes, I can go five miles down Jefferson Hwy. quickly at certain points of the day but that isn't the point of my post. We need at least one expressway that runs East-West and one the runs North-South in BR that isn't I-10/12.

The problem isn't contained to cars on the road (although that is a problem.) It's the actual design of the roadways throughout the city.

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Yes, I can go five miles down Jefferson Hwy. quickly at certain points of the day but that isn't the point of my post. We need at least one expressway that runs East-West and one the runs North-South in BR that isn't I-10/12.

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We're in general agreement. All I was doing was refuting an inaccurate blanket statement.

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All I was doing was refuting an inaccurate blanket statement.

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Which was neither a blanket statement nor inaccurate.

I specified traveling from one side of the city to the other - not randomly driving around while doing errands.

Along that vein...I would fully support an innovative law which would place a ban on interstate driving for any and all morons that CAUSE wrecks due to cell phone issues,general stupidity/inattention etc !
i.e. vehicular damage of any kind...3 month ban,injury involved...1 yr. ban
License plate reader detects your vehicle on the interstate = automatic revocation and heavy fine...can all be done electronically

I am all for legislation that punishes dumb drivers. You would think the fear of injuring yourself/others and damaging your property would be enough of a deterrent, right? It isn't. I don't know what punishments there can legally be, but there needs to be more consequences than just your insurance company paying for others' losses.

Obviously, we can't prevent wrecks that happen because of Acts of God, such as a deer jumping out in front of you or whatnot. But you can prevent stupid from taking the wheel, let's just see how far we can take it.